#tish

I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really. ↗

— Christopher Eccleston

#british #days #feature #i #lead

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#books #british #british museum #might #monkeys

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#british #church #explanation #fuss #goes

I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#band #because #british #british press #build

I think there's going to be pressure on all the British athletes. It's a home Olympics at the end of the day. I like adrenaline, that's something I feed off. I'm just going to go out there and do my best. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athletes #best #british #day #end

I want to experience that massive adrenalin rush when you step into a new stadium, all the more so when that Olympic Stadium is packed full of people waving British flags. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#british #experience #flags #full #i

Things have changed so much, with Facebook and Twitter. Everyone is so much more accessible these days: no British athlete has ever experienced what we are experiencing now. It's such a unique situation with the home Olympics. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#athlete #british #changed #days #ever

But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America. ↗

— Bono

#america #anything #britain #british #came

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands. ↗

— George Borrow

#countries #islands #known #less #than

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#arrogance #british #effectual #makes #marvelous